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Stanford historian Richard White has some interesting quotes in this KQED interview. While White’s concern about private companies screwing Californians with taxpayer dollars is a totally legitimate issue, the interview strongly suggests his actual objection to the California high speed rail project is that nobody rides trains in California. It’s an absurd claim that flies [...]
Another day, another expansion of the French TGV system. In this case French President Nicolas Sarkozy was on hand for the opening of the first section of LGV Rhin-Rhône, connecting Mulhouse to Lyon and helping improve high speed links between France, southern Germany, and Switzerland. The section that opened today is not the entire LGV [...]
One of the effects of turning something into a culture war is it tends to undermine support for the idea in question by sending the more timid elements in search of a compromise solution. Some people seek compromise over the best, smartest, most sensible solution, and it is these people who are the true target [...]
One of the common arguments against high speed rail in California is that the state doesn’t have enough population or population density to support high speed trains. This stems from a flawed application of common arguments about urban rail systems, where you usually do want to route light rail, streetcars, and subways along dense corridors, [...]
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